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>What makes you think universal healthcare would be any different? Because America isn't the entire world and there are many places where socialized healthcare

>What makes you think universal healthcare would be any different? Because America isn't the entire world and there are many places where socialized healthcare of various forms have been very successfully implemented for a long time. The idea peddled by conservatives in America that the only options for socialized healthcare are inevitable failure or tyranny is simply, demonstrably nonsense. It's exactly this kind of parochial, limited mindset that needs to change.

rukittenme 8y ago
Oh yes. Everyone who disagrees with me has a limited mindset. You could have used your open mind to read about a European (within this comment thread) who is having trouble with "the right" in his country: > This is a principal reason why the US was crossed off my list of countries where I would work and live. I fight against the privatization that is occurring within healthcare in my native country, Iceland. We used to have the Scandinavian model but decades of attacks from the right-wing Independence Party has broken our healthcare system. The next phase described by Chomsky is handing it over to private capital since people are outraged that it doesn't work anymore. I'm sickened by the development and feel a little like an old man screaming at the desert wind. It's exactly your kind of Utopian mindset that needs to change. Please read the news of countries other than the US. You might be surprised at the amount of controversy that surrounds universal healthcare systems.
- jdub 8y ago
  The controversy that surrounds universal healthcare systems goes something like this: "I am disappointed by my treatment in the system!" "Do you want to privatise it?" "Absolutely not."
  - Clubber 8y ago
    In the US, the first sentence holds true, it just costs a lot more.
- ryandrake 8y ago
  How many people out there would honestly be willing to trade their universal healthcare system for a US style system?
  - endtime 8y ago
    Alfie Evans' parents probably would...as would some of the people waiting months to get a simple MRI.
    - monocasa 8y ago
      Alfie Evans didn't have a brain anymore, and would have probably been pulled even quicker in the US system. Insurance agencies are quick to deny funding.

rukittenme 8y ago

Oh yes. Everyone who disagrees with me has a limited mindset. You could have used your open mind to read about a European (within this comment thread) who is having trouble with "the right" in his country: > This is a principal reason why the US was crossed off my list of countries where I would work and live. I fight against the privatization that is occurring within healthcare in my native country, Iceland. We used to have the Scandinavian model but decades of attacks from the right-wing Independence Party has broken our healthcare system. The next phase described by Chomsky is handing it over to private capital since people are outraged that it doesn't work anymore. I'm sickened by the development and feel a little like an old man screaming at the desert wind. It's exactly your kind of Utopian mindset that needs to change. Please read the news of countries other than the US. You might be surprised at the amount of controversy that surrounds universal healthcare systems.

jdub 8y ago
The controversy that surrounds universal healthcare systems goes something like this: "I am disappointed by my treatment in the system!" "Do you want to privatise it?" "Absolutely not."
- Clubber 8y ago
  In the US, the first sentence holds true, it just costs a lot more.
ryandrake 8y ago
How many people out there would honestly be willing to trade their universal healthcare system for a US style system?
- endtime 8y ago
  Alfie Evans' parents probably would...as would some of the people waiting months to get a simple MRI.
  - monocasa 8y ago
    Alfie Evans didn't have a brain anymore, and would have probably been pulled even quicker in the US system. Insurance agencies are quick to deny funding.